Dallas breast cancer awareness hike empowers women at Cedar Ridge Preserve

I'm invited to join a North Texas organization for a powerful morning of movement, sisterhood, wellness, and breast cancer awareness. Good morning to Luchi Ajuku, the founder of Hike Her. I'm guessing you've kicked off the hiking boots and put on your hiking heels today. I love that. You have had a crazy breast cancer journey yourself, two-time breast cancer survivor. You have now created the hiking wellness community here in North Texas, why combine those two things um first of all I think uh with Hike Her beyond the hiking it's really a place where faith, wellness and community can coexist and you know I learned this firsthand the healing power of nature during my own journey before that I haven't been an avid hiker but one thing that I knew was being out in nature and so once I was on the other side being a survivor that was my one mission to bring this gift to women, the healing power of nature and you don't have to be like crazy hiker right no you can go you can take breaks you can sit along the way this is the one thing I heard hiking and I was like oh I don't know if I can hike but then when you're out there on the trail and and you can go at your own pace it really can be such a beautiful thing and healing as you mentioned even if you're not going through something like cancer absolutely it is for everyone um it's so peaceful blissful you know yes blissful that's yeah yeah totally so you've got this big event that's going to be coming up and it's a whole day it's called the Pink Hike it's October 31st it's going to be 7:30 at the Cedar Ridge Preserve in Dallas um that's where you guys start doing the hike you'll go through that um and then you're going to move um to to more of a kind of an awareness a teaching a bonding experience, right? Yes. I call it the pink community celebration. It's going to be filled with faith. It's going to be filled with hope. It's going to be filled with celebration because at HikeHer, we don't want to lead with fear. I know breast cancer is very scary, but we want to lead with education. We want to lead with connection and we most importantly want to lead with empowerment and so it's going to feature for the first time a live podcast recording and i thought that that was important because you know that's atypical for breast cancer awareness events but we're going to have breast cancer survivors we're going to have caregivers we're also going to have health care professionals you know really talking about this disease from a real and honest place you know leaving the women filled with information again empowerment and that community that is much needed you say when you strengthen one you empower the other like you empower everyone who's around you do you do other HikeHer hikes like this or is this just like this one one one special moment yeah this is our flagship um annual right um event for breast cancer awareness so yes we do one in the year but throughout the year we're hiking every month this is your thing now. I mean, you really found a place where you're happy, huh? Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Oh, that's that's beautiful. OK, we've got all the details. Now, does someone have to sign up for this? Do you have to register? Can you just show up? You can register. All the information is going to be on the website. It is www.hikeher.org. OK. October 31st, Halloween, 7:30 in the morning. We'll start with pink and with orange, 7:30 a.m. goes until noon, we have all the details on our website as well and more on Hike Her too, thank you so much for sharing, appreciate it Alley, perfect day to go out and do a little hiking